Free of value-based conditions or demands for political reform, Chinese investment in the Balkans is simultaneously opening European markets and securing like-minded political allies.

Japan will need some big friends to balance against the US.

If the US really cared about Africa, it wouldn’t make Africans choose between it and China.

Multilateral institutions, like the World Trade Organization, have become proxies for differing visions of the global order and international relations.

So long as China continues to seek “truth from facts” and more importantly makes “practice the sole criterion of the truth," it will prosper.

Many Pakistanis are concerned about how much of the country’s current widening account deficit is a consequence of China’s landmark Belt & Road Initiative.

Apple announced last Wednesday that it failed to meet sales expectations in China. This, along with other warning signs, suggests that the Chinese economy is slowing down. And as China acted as one of the main engines of the global post-2008 recovery, this spells trouble for the global economy.

China’s new e-commerce law strives to protect consumers and intellectual property but comes at a price for the daigou business - personal shoppers who purchase quality and luxury goods overseas and re-sell them to customers in China - which is estimated to be worth up to $100 billion in sales.

The Trump administration is systematically targeting the Chinese economy, well beyond Trump’s fixation on trade imbalances. China has responded by launching an expansive fiscal policy, by loosening its monetary policy and doubling-down on home-bred industrialization in key sectors. While the two governments have recently agreed to a ceasefire, prospects are not good and additional measures should ameliorate bilateral tensions while negotiations continue.

Recently, the White House released its new U.S. Africa strategy, which seeks militarization and portrays China as a threat. This is misguided. Africa can greatly benefit from Chinese and U.S. economic development.